The Importance Of Social Media

Social media is digital content and interaction tool that is created by and between people, which provides various platforms for people to share content, exchange opinions and discuss experiences and perspectives. There is no doubt that social media has changed the way how people interact with others. Social media encourages conversations and interactions, from one-to-one conversation to one-to-two or even one-to-many conversation. There are certainly several changes and benefits to the society due to social media. These changes are likely to become even more significant and obvious in the future.

One of the huge changes to the world is the communication. People are now able to interact with others in a number of ways, such as Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. Social media allows people to interact with almost every single person. In the past, due to the limitation of technology, people were limited to communicate to those who they personally already knew; nowadays people can interact with different people from all around the world. This is the power of social media. Some people may have a thousand of online friends, although they may never have that many friends if they do not use social media as a tool to communicate with others. Social media provides the platform and opportunity for people to share their own opinions with different kinds of people. Another major change in communication is that people are able to causally express their own opinion via social media. There is no longer any limitation or filter in communication. In the past, newspaper, radio and television are the mainstream or media to announce or talk to a wide range of people. However, traditional media is unaffordable to most people and under the control of their...

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...net went globally, and everyone knew who he was and was looking for him. The social media connection still plays an important role in this issue apart from helping police to arrest the suspects. Since one of the suspects had Instagram, Twitter and VK (Russia's version of Facebook) accounts, FBI gain valuable evidence in the case against the suspected bomber. Therefore, social media provides much most updated news and useful information.

Social media is a platform, tool and bridge to keep people in touch with the society. Social media is of a considerable potential to bring changes to the society. Social media does not change the rules of campaigning. Social media increases awareness and draws the attention from people around a specific issue. Such a media change the methods of interaction, break the limitation in communication and reshape a new social environment.